KARACHI: The gate-out time of the transit consignments after off-loading at the ports has been reduced by half a time after the introduction of Web Based One Customs (WeBOC), an automated system for transit trade.
This was claimed by a senior official of the Directorate of Transit Trade while talking to Customs Today.
He said that the consignments go through examination and gate-out within three days. Earlier, before the introduction of WeBOC automated system it could take up to 12 days for the same process, the official.
Commenting on the pilferage of the containers en-route Super Highway and Chaman, the Pakistan Customs official said that the cases of theft and pilferage of the containers have been reduced dramatically due to strict surveillance on different check posts established at Super Highway, Chaman and other routes of transit trade.
Giving the statistics, the official informed that out of over 26,000 containers/consignments in the last year, only 150 incidents of pilferage were reported at Super Highway and Chaman routes, which shows dramatic decrease in pilferage incidents.
